Pierce

girls:

340 births since 1996

#5376 (6th percentile)

boys:

19.1k births since 1880

#834 (82nd percentile)

overall:

19.4k births since 1880

#1842 (76th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pierce".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
340
Peak Births
32
Peak Year
2022
First Recorded
1996
Peak Percentile
2.8%
Current Percentile
1.8%
Peak Rank
#857
Current Rank
#930
Female statistics
Total Births
19,090
Peak Births
648
Peak Year
2015
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
52.8%
Current Percentile
47.6%
Peak Rank
#184
Current Rank
#478
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Pierce

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Pierce. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 58.5% confident that Pierce is pronounced as pihrs. The next most likely pronunciation is pears, at 41.5% confidence.

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58.5%
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41.5%
pihrs (1 syllable)
Verified
58.5% confidence
P IH1 R S
pears (1 syllable)
41.5% confidence
P IY1 R S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Pierce. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Pierce, please vote using the thumbs up button.

PEH-rihs (2 syllables)
8 names 46.1k births
P EH1 R IH0 S
PEH-ruhs (2 syllables)
3 names 45.5k births
P EH1 R AH0 S

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like P IH1 R S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.